tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post3567911867072727156..comments2023-10-19T10:26:30.108-04:00Comments on Yin and Yang: The Value Of Talking AloudUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-16009816550140219432012-01-25T09:33:54.672-05:002012-01-25T09:33:54.672-05:00Dear Kate,
I'm lucky that I have a husband th...Dear Kate,<br /><br />I'm lucky that I have a husband that I can say anything to. Anything at all, and he will give me his version of a reality check. I don't know if its as unbiased as a therapist, in fact he's very comfortable to say, why don't you ask your therapist that question too? He feels safer with me that I have a therapist. There is no competition or resentment.<br /><br />My husband's been away at a training seminar. He had to fly. So I'm getting a dose of life without him. My mother predicted depression, but I've had more anxiety than depression. I really think my MAO inhibitors work, because since I've started them I've had no suicidal feelings at all. Perhaps I haven't gotten depressed yet because not much time apart has passed or because I know he is coming back. But I'm using talking as a resource, calling people and friends and family are calling me. I should give credit where credit is due, the powerful healing of friendship. You are really onto something when you write about talking into a tape recorder, if you get round to writing your memoir writing about it as a technique toward sanity might help other people with schizophrenia by introducing a new tool to manage themselves. I swear, I've never heard a professional give advice to do as you do, yet here is such a valuable technique, using a simple tape recorder.<br /><br />I think being a binge artist or a binge writer is good, because at least you do something, you return to a place of familiarity. Over the years I've run into people who want to be creative, yet never do. I mean they WANT in their gut, and something holds them back. It astonishes me, the loss they experience when there is no need for loss. My story is I never thought I was creative. I never saw myself as an artist. It is only in my mid life that I started art, and it is only recently that I vowed to devote my life to it. So you are right, people do become artists late in life. For me the sensation is like a bolder rolling down a hill, the more time passes the more serious I get over what I'm doing and the more internal momentum I feel for what I do.<br /><br />My mom says that her 50's were her favorite time of life. She might well too say that right now, in her seventies, is her favorite time of life, she's pretty positive. But I think that you are doing really well in your recovery, and if you want it, you can make your 50's the most creative period of your life. Its possible!<br /><br />All my love,<br />KarenKaren May Sorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14436905322393073250noreply@blogger.com